Page 8 - In the Spirit and Power of Elias

in bondage, their taskmasters had attempted

to force them to labor on the Sabbath by

increasing the amount of work required each

week. Again and again the conditions of labor

had been made harder and more exacting. But

the Israelites were delivered from bondage

and brought to a place where they might

observe unmolested all the precepts of

Jehovah. At Sinai the law was spoken; and a

copy of it, on two tables of stone, “written with

the finger of God” was delivered to Moses.

Exodus 31:18. And through nearly forty years

of wandering the Israelites were constantly

reminded of God's appointed rest day, by the

withholding of the manna every seventh day

and the miraculous preservation of the double

portion that fell on the preparation day.

Before entering the Promised Land, the

Israelites were admonished by Moses to “keep